News In A Nutshell (1936)

Item title reads - News in a Nutshell. Intertitle - ’Grays, Essex.’ - M/S as the boys from the training ship “Warspite“, and their visitors, have a three-legged race towards the camera. L/S of people watching. M/S of a tug of war race. M/S of boys pillow fighting whilst sitting on a pole. Boys wearing fencing masks sit on others’ shoulders and fence. M/S of a boy dressed as a Spaniard and another as Mickey Mouse, a pantomime horse falls down next to them. M/S of boys climbing through tyres suspended on ropes. M/S of visitors watching, M/S of boys climbing up ropes and running across obstacle course. M/S of one in a barrow, he is pushed along and hits a bucket on a pole with a stick, it spills its contents on the ground. Intertitle - ’Chertsey, Surrey’ - M/S of a horse-drawn ploughing competition. M/S of Benito Mussolini on a mechanical plough, showing how it is done in Italy. Various shots of the horses walking along in rows. The ploughmen stand and watch whilst judges measure furrows. M/S as a